Death Foretold

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

Death is philosophy's only problem. - Albert Camus

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katharine Hepburn

There is no death! What seems so is a transition. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death is that after which nothing is of interest. - Rozinov

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

Death is very often referred to as a good career move. - Buddy Holly

If we do not know about life, how can we know about death? - Confucius

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me. - Emily Dickinson

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. - Christopher Bullock

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. - Bill Musselman

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. - Dan Rather

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar Brailey

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

The world can't end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. - Mel Brooks

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

Life is better than death, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

Contracting COVID19 is not a death sentence. So, maintain social distancing and wash your hands frequently. - Abhijit Naskar

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

I can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquility will return again. - Anne Frank

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C S Lewis

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen